The U.S.S.R.: After Brezhnev: Stormy Weather

It is 63 years
since the revolution, and the political leadership of the Soviet Union
has still not developed a tradition or institution to assure a smooth
transfer of authority. The U.S.S.R. is a nation where supreme power
changes hands only through death or coup. Vladimir Lenin's demise was
hastened by an assassin's bullet. There is a lingering, but unproven,
suspicion that Joseph Stalin was murdered. Georgi Malenkov and Nikita
Khrushchev were ignominiously ousted from office. What fate is in store
for the collective leadership...